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[ t h e a s c i i c h a r t s ] . . [ e d i t i o n m a y 1 9 9 9 ] . ____. _ ___ | | ____ ________ / \__ _\\_ \| |_\\ _/___ ____\ // _//__ _/ \ \ | ____/_/ () _\____ \_ __ \ \ \_ | \/ / / __ -\//---------\ \ | _ _ _ _ /----------------\\/- \\____|\___|-\_______/ \___/\___/ \\_______/nD! Hello ! Dipswitch is here again to tell you what happened in our beloved ascii scene in May. Whether you see sense in TAC or not, many people always wait for the next issue and are glad... First of all, I must confess that there are some collys from the last months which were not included in the last issues. These are two SEA collies, which made a long way from Poland to Germany, a Weapon-X colly which laid in the ascii base of Artificial Insemination/Finland a whole month (!!!) until someone has the good idea to upload it in The Yard, from where it travelled through the whole other amiga boards. The fourth colly is the great Abhorrence colly which i simply forgot in the last Issue... SORRY, ABHO !!! Yeah, and yesterday I recieved some collys from Ghandy's mailcontact, who has no bbs access but does only diskswapping. They are also from January and March and so... Well, what happened else last month...? Some old guys showed up again, like aDON/ex-oMA and zORRO/ex-dG!. There is even a rumour that aPU/ex-dKB, zORRO/ex-dG! and zOD!/tRSi are going to form a new asciigroup... well, we'll see ! eSCUMA, the, as far as I know, first female asciiartist ever, joined up with the 1oo% ascii posse, where her boyfriend hAWKWiND is also a member. 1oo% did a member meeting in Fuerth/Germany at Hawkwind's place, where nEURODANCER, hAWKWiND, eSCUMA, miRACLE and aNTi-G were present. An amiga intro and a new homepage is planned for the future, as well as many new collies . Big thanks to nEURODANCER/1oo% for the whole divider logos and miRACLE/1oo% for the title logo. To all other ascii artists: please do a logo saying 'THE ASCII CHARTS' !!! It seems that aV3NGER a.k.a. aVENGER a.k.a. sHAOLiN/oMA is planning a come- back. The fact is that he requested some logos from zANER and me for a new colly. My email will no more be present from the 1.7.99 because Los Endos BBS will close their email service. If you know/have a bbs with free email service please contact me. Nothing more to say ! - diPSWiTCH/aRCADE^aHS^1oo% // tHE yARD bBS // tHE aSCii cHARTS ____. ____ .________ ________. ____ ______ _____ _\ | _\\ _/__ | /_:_\ | _\\ _/__ _\\___ \_ / _//__ _/ __|_____/ ___/_|______/ : \______:/ ____/_| _ _/._\____ \_ \ \ \ | / : \ | \ : \ \| / / --\ \/ _ | / : \ |_ _ \ \ /- \_____ / \_______/' /_____/:\_____\ ` \_______/nD--- \ \\_______/ \__/ : \____/ First of all, an IRC capture where bOHEME^sE gives his statement to Ascii Charts and the death of ascii... check it. ----/start of IRC capture/----- > boheme: what ? #ascii> ..and you can quote me on that dip: the ascii charts hblahablaoot *** snuffy (~snuffy@mp-40-13.daxnet.no) has joined channel #ascii > boheme: why ? #ascii> snuffa *** Acorn (Acorn@dialup45-4-5.swipnet.se) has joined channel #ascii > ACORN!!! > boheme: tell me your critics !!! #ascii> Dippie! acorn! zanero! bohemas! Zeus! hmm dip: stoopid shite.. and the charts are idiotic since you got there collections from a few months wrong win..sorry acrn bububub *** bOhEmE^sE is now known as bHe^fL > boheme: if someone's stoopid then you are... they're called charts'99 and SO THEY ARE !!! #ascii> folar gettinghere hi folah! > folar ! #ascii> diPSWiTCH: what's the problem? ouh.. folar here > acorn: what problem ? diPSWiTCH: hmm..nothing..:) hee that is uck ht to bHe^fL> i think the charts are like that, because the chart stuff is only from 1999 not all-time ... i think that would be a better addition diPSWiTCH... hard to type with this communicator > boheme: tAC are important to get this ascii battle alive again... can you say something agains that ? *** Signoff: snuffy (Ping timeout) *** klefz_ (~f@md4690b68.utfors.se) has joined channel #ascii > zaner: wie was ?!?! soll ich aus 99 alltime machen oder wie oder was !??! diPSWiTCH> nein, aber irgendwie versuchen eine alltime liste zu erstellen, das ist naemlich richtig geil so als ueberblick .. :) ascii is dead > zaner: dann koennte ich sie ja gleich von xCZ abschreiben...;) i mean noone needs it diPSWiTCH> stimmt ... ----/end of IRC capture/----- My comment to this: Boheme, if you have had read the Ascii Charts carefully, you would have noticed that the header of the charts reads 'Charts'99' !!! And if ascii is dead, so why are you idling the whole day on #ascii ? Why don't you do something to stop the death of ascii ? You think noone needs ascii ? Well, why do I get ca.20 requests per month ? Boheme, this is nothing against you, I like your art (if you do some;) but stop giving superficial comments, better think ! This letter i recieved from an amiga scener named Joule... ----/start of email/----- From: Joel Johansson Reply-To: jouel@freenet.hut.fi To: dipswitch@losendos.ourfamily.com Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:10:00 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: YAM 2.0Preview7 [020] - Amiga Mailer by Marcel Beck - http://www.yam. h Organization: bumbibears MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-UIDL: 940eb56499d9b0cbaf4eb97cad9e5164 greets.. just wanted to tell you that i think the oldschool asciiscene need a thing like 'the ascii charts'. dOn't stop releasing it! thank you very much and have a nice day.. -- : . jOule __.___ /_.__|--|____ .____ . |-------/ | // | ! | /--| -_/------| :------/---'-//---'-----'--/---'----------: joule@amigascne.org jOule #skaraborg #amielite IRCnet ----/end of email/----- Hello Joule, thanx for the flowers...;). No, I'm not going to stop releasing this little mag... The following mail came from Abhorrence/Inhale, whose colly i forgot to review/put in the charts. ----/start of email/----- From: "E. Vesa" To: Subject: tac Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 23:40:52 +0300 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: a1aab5445bc2b1ade5e38ef0273d6038 i just checked tac-9904.txt and found out that my colly (ih-ange.txt) wasn't noticed in any way... i guess every other colly released in april was noticed there. why is it so? it's on hosee and it should be on every major bbs, so you should have got it. i even talked to you about that some time ago... no bad feelings, i'm just wondering. - abhorrence / inhale ^ flo ----/end of email/----- Hi Abho !!! Oh god, I'm really sorry...! I looked at TAC and I noticed too that neither your colly is reviewed nor Inhale is listed in the charts ! I loved you colly very much (thoug I perhaps missed a DIPSWiTCH and an ASCII CHARTS;). But I forgot to copy it from the terminal download dir to the ascii archive dir. And I do reviews from collies which are already in the ascii dir... so I just forgot the colly... Sorry ! Ok, no more mail... Well, if you got something to say, write ! Up to the 1.7.1999 you can write to , after thart you will have to reach me on some boards... Perhaps there will be a TAC email address in some months... Now, to the reviews..! _____ ______ ______ _______. \ _/ ______ _______. _____ __\\__ \_ _\\ __/_ .___\ |__\___._\\ __/_ .__\\ | / _//__ _/ _/ _/ ____/_| \ | | ____/_| \ |_\___ \_ \ \ \ \ ` \ _| | \ ` /\ / / --\ \ \ _ /\ / | _ | _ /\ __ /-- `---- \ \\_______/ \_____/ `-\____|-\_______/ \__/\___/ \_______/nD! \____/ _____ ____ __\_ /___ ___ _\ \___------------------. \ \ \ \ \ \ bLACK mAiDEN ! : fiLENAME: bm-bbb.txt /__ /_____/___ /_____/__/_________________: dATE: 01/05/99 . . aRTiST: Ave : "breakbeats because i love it" : tAG: ave'bm : another collection by : gROUP: Black Maiden : ave/blackmaiden -- : hiS cOLLY nO.: ? :____ _ _ ____: fiRST oN: Hazard/2 dip/// / · · · · · · · · · · · \ \\\ a! Yesss, Ave is presenting some ascii skillz again after a long time...! Nice style, perhaps the letters are sometimes too distanced from eachother, but all in all a very nice production. - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- . -:------------[ the newcoming ]--+ fiLENAME: r-ozz81a.txt .:.. _._____ ..... . . ... . . dATE: 01/05/99 : __|_ \ E M O R S E 1 9 8 1 aRTiST: Kayozz : _\ |/ /_ tAG: ozz : / \_____// Premiere colly for gROUP: Remorse 1981 :/_ __\ the rmrs crew by kayozz hiS cOLLY nO.: ? -:- \/ --------------------------+ fiRST oN: Milan : Don't like that one too much... The whole colly is made very negligently, some letters like the 'gum' in 'gumfuck' are extremely unproportional and ugly. That's not a good start into remorse, Kayozz ! - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- ______ __ //\___ ______ REMORSE _ ___\_ /( \/ /_\_ / _____ 1981 fiLENAME: r-tm.txt _/ _/_ \/ / _/ _/_\\ __/___ dATE: 01/05/99 _ __\ /___/ /___\ /--\_ / aRTiST: Hiro Protagonist /____\ /____\ /____\ ____// tAG: ©hP! /_____\ gROUP: Remorse 1981 [ R-TM.TXT · 05/01/99 ] ..... ©hP! hiS cOLLY nO.: ? .........................::::: fiRST oN: www.acid.org :: :: A Hiro Protagonist Ascii Collection :: :: " The Message " :: ::................... . 125,2OO bytes Hiro Protagonist gives us a lifesign. Very nice one. You can say anything against Remorse and against other hP! productions, but this one is simply brilliant. Nice design, exellent style. The only minus: the whole logos are respect logos to some strange pc ansi artists who can not use oldschool logos either... - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- ____. / | _____ _____ __ ___ | |__\\_ \__\\_ \_\// // fiLENAME: 1oo-feel.txt | | / / / / /__ aScii lAbs dATE: 01/05/99 -| _|\_______/\_______/--\_/-\/----------- aRTiST: Neurodancer |__/ prEsenting tAG: nD "a feeliNg... so dEep... so cleAr" gROUP: 1oo% by nEurodancer o1-mAy-1999 hiS cOLLY nO.: 13 ____________________________________________ fiRST oN: Aurora Borealis And another lifesign, this time from Neurodancer. When it comes to innovative and funny colly design this is for sure the best production of the month. Nice allround design, funny extra gimmicks like an 'ascii- meter' and a clock doing DRRRRIIIIINNNG, all drawn very clearly in dots. Well ok ok stop, I'm in 1oo% too so I'm getting too much into hailing ;).. Leech this colly and see yourself. - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- [---------------------- kem/k0 --] fiLENAME: k0-invte.txt _ _ k0re. factories dATE: 01/05/99 ¼_¼___¼_¼_ _ _ ______ _ aRTiST: Kempy ¼ ¼ ¼ ¼ ¼ ¼ ¼ ¼ _ tAG: kem/k0 ¼_¼ ¼_¼ ¼_¼______¼_¼ ¼_¼ gROUP: k0re present kempy's I N V I T E hiS cOLLY nO.: 7 [-------------------- 01/05/99 --] fiRST oN: The Sect Why this fuckers always pack their collies in an *.lha without any reasons ? This is no ansi pack, stupid k0re fuckers ! There are even boards who nuke such packed collies. All in all, the colly is not as bad-ass as the most k0re productions, but still not good enough. The file_id.diz sucks too, by the way... - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- ___.____ ____ ___. ____ _____ ___\ | \/ _/____\ |_\_ \/ / __\ | \___ \ | / \_/ __ fiLENAME: a!-germa.txt -\ \____|__| \_____/\____|_____/\____nD/- dATE: 02/05/99 :.\ /.: aRTiST: Dipswitch ::.\ ' g E R M A N b O A R D S ' /.:: tAG: diP/a! :::.\ /.::: gROUP: Arcade ::::.\ a cOLLY bY diPSWiTCH\a!^1oo% /.:::: hiS cOLLY nO.: 11 ------\ /------ fiRST oN: The Yard - - -\--(02/MAY/99)----(ARCADE)--/- - - Nothing to say. My colly. Check it or not. Addies for all german boards. - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- __._._._._._. |_|_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_| ______ _____ |_|_|_|_| fiLENAME: sea-time.txt _\ _/_ .\ _/_ |_| ____ dATE: 03/05/99 _./___ / \____ \| __/_.___\__ \_. ____\._ aRTiST: Blaze | \ \_____/__|_______|____l/___| / | tAG: blz'sea | s a t i v e m e a | gROUP: Sative Mea _|_______________________________________|_ hiS cOLLY nO.: ? \ Bd!/La! |_|_._._._. / fiRST oN: King's Crown |_|_|_|_|_| BLAZE is back into past. |_| CONCEPTION 5 III: timelessness. Hey, finally a polish colly with english text !!! But this makes the colly not better... I still can not understand why Blade changes his style from time to time against an uglier one. Polish asciiers seem to change their style very often as I noticed. My advice to all artists: stick to your style and improve it ! - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- >> jEdI aRts __________. ._________. __\ /__ _____\ |/ \__ fiLENAME: ja!-99.txt _/ . __ / dATE: 10/05/99 \ \/ / aRTiST: Wise-K \ /\ \______/ tAG: wk \ ___/ \_______\ gROUP: Jedi Arts (c)\________\ ::..........::::::: hiS cOLLY nO.: ? :::.............: : fiRST oN: Death Row : the wise says know :..... .......................: : : your damn role. : "nine nine" :....................: Many of us waited for it, noone believed it would happen, but it did happen: jEDi aRTS kick a colly in '99 ! Very lovely style, a real seldom nowadays... Hope that we can expect more from Wise-K & Co. in the near future ! - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- --- [b|z'sea]--------------- ____ _:___________________________\ 7 · __________ \/ fiLENAME: sea-nwor.txt | / ______\ , . | dATE: 10/05/99 · /______ / ) a t | v e · aRTiST: X-Ball | / _______/____ | tAG: ×6L · / / _______/ m e a · gROUP: Sative Mea |/· / ______|_________ | hiS cOLLY nO.: ? =//====\_____ / ____ \=·= fiRST oN: Spaced Out ·/==========/ / \ / /=|= =·===============\_____/ /==·= =|====================/ /===|= © "NEW ORDER" azkee collection signed under label crazy'n'spin SATIVE MEA squad by: X-BALL/DECREE+SATIVE MEA ..in nin...[1999]. ÷ watch and enjoy sucker ÷ --------------------[12/02/99]-- First thing to say: the file_id.diz says 12/02/99, but it's 10/05/99 ! Probably X-Ball copied the diz from some old SEA colly and forgot to change the date... I'm positively surprised about this colly. If it's X-Ball's own style and he didn't rip anything, he would be the first SEA styler who reached the international ascii level... Well, just my opinion. - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- _____ _____ ______ \ _/________ \ /_______ ______| \__ \___ / _/ \ | / fiLENAME: sea-pace.lha ___ / /_____\_________\ ____|_______/ dATE: 12/05/99 .- / /-------------------------------. aRTiST: Blaze | · · another sative mea smashhit | tAG: blz'sea | stacked up 2nd part | gROUP: Sative Mea | peace | hiS cOLLY nO.: ? | spanked by blaze | fiRST oN: The Sect |_________ ___| dip/a! )/--------------------12/05/99-\( You stoopid fuckers, stop packing your collies !!! I start to get really angry... And Blaze is using the ugly style again. Well, at least he used some nice guest logos...;) - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- ____. / | _____ _____ __ ___ | |__\\_ \__\\_ \_\// // fiLENAME: 1oo-miln.txt | | / / / / /__ aScii lAbs dATE: 13/05/99 -| _:\_______/\_______/--\_/-\/----------- aRTiST: Miracle |__/ : prEsenting tAG: mrc :... "mIllENnIUM".................... gROUP: 1oo% created by Miracle (you won't believe!:) hiS cOLLY nO.: 11 . ... ...... ...13/May/99 fiRST oN: Aurora Borealis Yeah Miracle is back. Take a look by yourself, I can't review it neutral 'cause i'm 1oo% too... - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- __.._____ ____. ____ ____ ____ \_||_ // /|/ // /____)_ \_..__ vol/ / _. / _. ____/_||_/ fiLENAME: kkz-noi.txt . __./ \ \| \ \| \ \ .__ . dATE: 13/05/99 : //____/ \____\___/ \____\_________\:\ : aRTiST: Jaw : ¡ ¡ : tAG: jaw : | noise. by jaw | : gROUP: Killkrazed : _¡_ released 13.5 _¡_ : hiS cOLLY nO.: 2 : _\|/_______________________________\:/_ : fiRST oN: The Yard Oh gawwwd ! Jaw is incorregible... Again he tried to set some chars together to let them be logos. Jaw, you say in your colly that i'm going to have a good laugh again. NO ! This isn't funny, it's just sad. Either you should learn it or leave it ! - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- .______ ._____ -×6L |/ / ______ __________ __T 7________) /___l /__) __/ \_ _______ ______.__________,__ _ \_. fiLENAME: sea-mlem.lha i / __/__/ __|/ __. | ¦ dATE: 19/05/99 | \____ \ _l \_l | :· aRTiST: Azzaro & Blaze / // / \ _| -s3a .¦: tAG: az0!/sea & b|z'sea |_ /______/_____________/___\ )___.i||| gROUP: Sative Mea /__ _ /___\ hiS cOLLY nO.: ? <--s a t i v e m 3 a-[999]------------> fiRST oN: The Sect brothers in law, azzaro&blaze gives you another travel into da borderline "MORNING LEMON" coop, 19th from SEA POLSKA ASCII KURWA ROCKIN' Yeah, this is a little bit nicer than the averange SEA productions. Blaze (it's his 3rd colly in May) found a nicer style than in the last two ones. Azzaro's style is too unreadable I think... But all in all a quite ok collection. - diP/a! ----/next colly/----- ___ _____ ___ ___ _____ ____ / _ \__\_ \_/ _/___/ _ \__\__ \_/ _ \ _/ \_ / _/ \ \ \_ / / /__/_ fiLENAME: a!-rbeit.txt \___|___/_\ \_______/__|___/____/________/ dATE: 24/05/99 :----------\___/-------[sTZ!/sE ©'98]------: aRTiST: Dipswitch : ' how to design a collie ? ' : tAG: diP/a! : dipswitch helps you with some nice logos : gROUP: Arcade : take it or leave it...........24.05.1999 : hiS cOLLY nO.: 12 :------------------------------------------: fiRST oN: Los Endos Tsss... Again a colly from some ascii artist called Dipswitch... This time with logos for others to design their collies. - diP/a! _____ ____. \ _/ ___ | _|________ ____ _____ __\___.\\_ \| \: //_._\\ _/___ _\\__ \_ _/ | \ \ \______/ | ____/_/ _ / \ | \ \_ | / \ / \ __ --\ _ | \ |nD!/ _ _ _ \ \----------------------\\/- \\____| _ |\___| /______/ \\_______/ \---\ \ \\___| \____/ _ _______: ____. ____ _________ / \__ ___\ |__\___|_\\ _/___ ___\ // _//__ iNTERViEW wiTH aVE/bM! _/ \ ` | ____/_/ \ _\____ \_ __ \ \/ _ | \ /\ / / -\//---------------------\ _ / \ _ | _ _ _ _ /-- \\_____/ \\____|-\_______/ \___/\___/ \\_______/ dip: How did you get in touch with computers the first time ? ave: My father was and still is interested into computers and electronics in general. He owned a c64 and i enjoyed playing all those cool games like jumpman, turrican, pirates and maniac mansion. that was my first contact with computers, back then i was about 7 or 8. the first signs of the scene were all those cracktro's. i fucking loved the ocean loader tune of pirates :) i fooled around with basic but at that age my programs were of course not too impressive. around 1992 or so my father bought a 286 pc and on my 11th birthday i was introduced to play commander keen. some time later my father bought a modem and started to read and write in the fidonet. dip: How did you get in touch with the scene ? ave: To be honest, the initial motivation about getting into the scene was "pc underground" - the infamous book by one of those coexistence guys :) a cd-rom was attached to it and in one of the demo-zips was a mailswap-addy by the avatar/snet, who's still on #coders.ger quite regurlar. that must have been around 1994. i wanted to get in contact with him and since i read somewhere that he ran a board, i searched in the fido nodelist for his board "britannia". i started to call it and was really impressed by the great ansigraphics (well, back then i thought they'd be great :) and all the scene flavour. i downloaded every shitty file and after a while of reading the fido scene-echos szene.ger and demo.ger i asked avatar if i could become "point". i already tried to code in turbo pascal and did a few thedraw font-ansis :) after a while of ripping sources and so on, i dropped coding again and sticked to ansi. in the ansi.ger (fido-echo) i first met the black maiden guys voice and tex. i joined a bunch of local lamers called utshg, released two artpacks with them and a couple of lame other stuff until i decided to apply to black maiden. my ansis were quite unbearable, but kyp (who joined bm after the insommnia-pack) and voice decided to let me in :) i was fucking happy and i loved ansi. i drew the whole day and released dozens of logos in every pack. i don't know why but i always focused on logos. after a while i was recognized by other german artists. i was invited to the anarchy-net (a fido-based scene-message-net) and got to know alot of other scene people - all the (pc-)scenes were linked to the same nets in the past (fido-ansi.ger, fido-scene.ger, fido-demo.ger, anarchynet, ebolanet, pyxnet ..). so i met musicians, coders, graphicians as well as warez guys. i got better and better and until now i've been in a couple of quite known ansi groups like mean scheme, fire, awe letterings and so on.. dip: You were active in the PC demo/artscene and are still active. What do you do there ? ave: my connection to the demoscene is based on those old relationships i made via the message nets and besides that i am helping out poti of black maiden, who organizes a small german demoparty called evoke. today i loose the connection to the demo-scene more and more, since many people moved to the internet and i sticked with boards. i still draw ansi and ascii, but not that much anymore, since our beloved real life has caught me, too :) another reason is that the ansi-scene got a lot smaller and there are few releases nowadays, it's not that motivating anymore :( dip: Why did you start to draw Amiga Ascii, after doing PC Ansi and PC ($-Style) Ascii ? ave: i started to draw ascii very early, but neglected it a long time when i was focusing on ansi only. why did i start to draw amiga ascii? hm, actually just to try if i can master it, too. i wanted to try all kinds of textmode art and i always liked ascii (not as much as ansi but still :) . another motivation was lord chaos of ex-whale (nowadays of kolor), who i got to know via the previous described message-nets. i wanted to be as good as him and he was a very friendly and funny guy, who helped me out from time to time (explain the amiga-scene and such) ansi bores me from time to time and then i draw ascii. i was bored of the pc scene in general, it had nothing new for me and so i started to call a few amiga boards. that's it. i am still a pc scener, but i like amiga ascii and dedicate my ascii- collies to the amiga scene. dip: What is Black Maiden ? ave: black maiden is mainly a group of ansi/ascii/vga artists. we have different projects like evoke (the demoparty) and such, but we grew up in the ansi scene. the original black maiden founded by voice and tex was founded about 10-12 years ago (i do not really know the exact date) as a cracking and coding group on the CPC. 1994 they entered the pc scene and started to do graphics, i joined in the end of 1995 and after voice and tex retired, i was chosen to take over the role of the main organizer in 1997 and slowly black maiden got more and more recognition from the international scene. but we were always the underdogs, because we released only very 3-4 months and somehow our distribution was not too great. but we were always the stylekings :) due to lack of time and motivation our ansi releases got fewer in the time. but that does not prevent us being good friends, we are partly quite local to each other and so it's quite usual that we meet from time to time. dip: Please explain our (mostly-Amiga) readers the structure of a PC Ansi/Ascii group in comparison to Amiga Asciigroups ! ave: the main difference is that you release together with other artists and not single. it creates much more a group atmosphere, and every release is a nice feeling. some ansi groups have a leader who decides everything, but we are more or less democratic and vote for every major decision and only some organizers take care of distribution and all those stuff. at the moment i am still main organizer, because i am the one with the most free time (highschool :) the disadvantage of group releases, that there have to be deadlines or you always have to wait for others, even if you are done with your work. dip: In Black Maiden pack #20 you announced the stop of releasing artpacks. Will single collies still be released ? ave: yes. all our other work will be published via a webgallery and probably a little mag which will contain our bi-monthly produced art. dip: You draw on PC. How do you manage to let your asciis look nice on an Amiga, too ? Do you use a kind of emulator or something ? ave: yes, i use afs.com. dip: What do you think about so-called 'oldschool ascii' PC groups like Remorse, Mimic etc. ? ave: well, i respect them and they release very nice newskool ascii, but when it comes to oldskool-ascii i prefer most amiga-groups. dip: Did you notice that many PC artists stopped to believe into the board scene ? Someone of Remorse even stated in a colly that there are no more boards left as noone needs them. Isn't that a vicious circle since Ansi/Ascii has in first line the aim to do art for the board scene ? ave: this is an often discussed question in the pc ansi scene. i prefer boards because they have a special atmosphere (not that sterile like internet and more individual) and you don't have to wait for years to get to the next page. it is a vicious circle and for ansi i think the only way to survive is the "artform" way. ansi can only survive, if it gets recognized as an artform by a broader public. releases from dieznyik, 4o, crayon and so on are the right way i think. for ascii it's a bit different. telnet boards are usually too slow for ansi and so ascii has still some chances to survive. dip: What do you think about Amiga scene in general ? It's a quite new terrain for you, isn't it ? ave: i don't know much about the amiga scene, to be honest. i always got the impression that there are less lamers and especially the amiga-graphicians and demos are lovely :) my first impression from ascii collies was that the ascii-scene is a tad unfriendlier, but after getting into it i just recognized that the opposite is the truth :) dip: What's about readable versus unreadable style ? ave: i am definately pro readable style, where readable means for me that the is a system behind the letters and not just a pile of slashes. you should be able to recognize a development in the style and not just "one logo that way, one logo completely different" dip: Now you are allowed to brag about your board ! ave: there is not much to say, i have very few callers and i just keep it online to support the bbs-scene in general and share artpacks, ascii collies, zines, graffiti and some other stuff with the last few german bbs callers. alot of great ansi artists have drawn something for it, so it's still worth a call :) it runs pcboard and its number is +49-2406-929269 (v34+x75). dip: Wanna greet someone ? ave: um, i take my first interview ever as a opportunity to greet a lot of guys: dv8, poti, junk, the avatar, assign, buster, bisonours, black weasel, dwarf, dizman, you dipswitch :), dieznyik, fastjack, salice, 4o, faxe, jerusalem, jey, konami, kyp, lemon, leo, lord chaos, milkmang, mother, nail, nemo, scheibe, disco1974, bizzarro, tarjan, noize, osel, outraider, positive pain, pandur, samurai, scope, seltorn, shaitan, shine, speed freak, storm&c-storm, dalezy, tleilax, tna, toot, tex, voice, zaner, zippy, bk, trc, nstalkie, mortimer twang .. all black maiden members and ex-members.. all (ex-)members of the now dead groups utshg, ega, fire, mean scheme, zenith design, seraphic, everglo, awe, fuel, blood, blend, phat .. all members of the still alive groups poffelipoff, glue, fokus, kolor, hieroglyphics .. dip: Thanks for the interview ! 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